- Josh Cooper of Yahoo! Sports: Newly signed Sabre, Cody Franson, didn’t expect to be without a team in August.
“The whole free agency experience went very different than we had planned. With the cap not going up and a lot of the teams that were very interested in us, they didn’t have a lot of options,” Franson said. “They were pretty tight against the cap as-was. There were some trades that were made that ended up taking away some of our suitors. I think this was a year where everything kind of changed really.”
Towards the end of the offseason, Franson was only be offered one-year deals. Franson won’t blame his agent for the way things turned out.
“I’m going to trust my agent. He’s going to continue to be my agent and you know what? At the end of the day, I don’t think any other agent could have done anything differently for me,” Franson said. “We never turned down any offers. We never gave anybody hard numbers when we were asked where we were at. Everybody who spoke to us sounded like they were very much in agreement and there were a number of different factors that came into play that made it a tough year to find a suitor.”
- Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Sun: Bryan Murray is set to be a consultant for the Senators next year, but there is a chance that he could remain as GM next year.
“I feel pretty good,” Murray said.
“I’m not sure where I am at the moment. I’m at the end of my general manager’s contract and I’m not pushing to do anything there. I’m just going to, in all likelihood I’ll step back, but that’s not absolute. I haven’t talked to Eugene about it at all really.”
- Darren Dreger: Daniel Paille will attend the Blackhawks training camp on tryout.